From the relics of the African branch of this root-race, the old Egyptian priests had knowledge regarding the sunken continent, knowledge which was no fable, but the traditionary lore and history of the survivors of the lost Atlantis.

If, then, Buddhism, or the philosophy which bears that name, originated with the fourth root-race of men, does it not occur to the initiated that the fifth race ought, by this same theory, to develop a higher form of truth?

All will remain linked by their destiny to this planet, until the moment when all -- a few rare, unfortunate, negligent laggards excepted -- shall have passed through their last mortal probation, in the seventh root-race.